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Personal info

Full name
WRIGHT, Charles Raymond Jr
Date of birth
30 March 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Hometown
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34369000
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Gun Commander
Unit
B Company,
825th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 December 1944
Place of death
Rochefort, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 3 9

Immediate family

Members
Charles R. Wright (father)
Elizabeth J. (Lett) Wright (mother)
Dorothy L. Wright (sister)
William H. Wright (brother)
Sarah M. (Johnson) Wright (wife)

More information

Sgt Charles R. Wright Jr. graduated from Knoxville High School and was employed at Ray’s Market before he enlisted at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on 8 September 1942. He was sent overseas in June 1944.

Sgt Wright fired about 6 or 8 rounds. In the meantime the tanks were returning fire. The first round landed between the two guns. The second round struck the tree over Sgt Wright’s gun crew and the third round at almost the same time landed between the wheels of the gun putting the gun and crew out of action.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Everett Johnson Jr Family Tree, www.tankdestroyer.net, www.findagrave.com – Bruce Weirauch

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.newspapers.com – The Knoxville News Sentinel - 21 January 1945